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Elizabeth McSheffrey is a bilingual journalist from Ottawa with diverse experience in print, television and radio reporting. She currently works in Halifax, N.S. as a digital broadcast journalist with Global News.

Stories with impact

Elizabeth’s reporting has had national and international impact: this year, she was a co-finalist for three national journalism excellence awards for her work on the Price of Oil, which drove legislative change on air pollution in Ontario, and exposed chronic regulatory infractions within Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry that put the public at risk. Last year, she was part of the team nominated for a prestigious Michener Award for a series investigating conflict of interest within Canada’s federal energy regulator, which contributed to the eventual demise of the largest pipeline proposal in Canadian history.

In 2016, Elizabeth also co-won a Canadian Online Publishing Award for Best News Coverage, and in 2015, her feature on Uganda’s burgeoning cinema industry launched its action stars to international fame, earning her an AITO Young Travel Writer of the Year nomination. A few months later, her reporting on Canada’s fur industry provoked an internal investigation into a Canadian luxury apparel company, landing her on the list of finalists for an outstanding investigative reporting award from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Elizabeth earned her Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University and graduated at the top of her class. She was awarded the prestigious Phyllis K. Wilson Award two years in a row, and has guest lectured at Moi University in Nairobi and Queen’s University in Kingston, on international journalism and business and human rights, respectively.